I wonder if they’re doing that to reduce the write cycles on the cells and since they’re “encrypting” the contents of the cells they figure the overall IO flag of the data being deleted is “good enough”.
So, in a perfect world, when you wipe the phone it’s basically just trashing the encryption key and so it’s useless data.
That’s all assuming that the encryption method/keys are foolproof which is always a bad bet.
And, this here makes me wonder how effective that is.
And a person claimed in a later post that “around 300” of their old pictures, some of which were “revealing,” appeared on an iPad they’d wiped per Apple’s guidelines and sold to a friend.
That’s a huge issue. Not just for photos but also files for sensitive data, secrets, etc. this, if true, is a massive issue overall since it even happening at all shouldn’t be possible.
It restoring deleted photos onto wiped devices that have been resold is a privacy nightmare.
I wonder if they’re doing that to reduce the write cycles on the cells and since they’re “encrypting” the contents of the cells they figure the overall IO flag of the data being deleted is “good enough”.
So, in a perfect world, when you wipe the phone it’s basically just trashing the encryption key and so it’s useless data.
That’s all assuming that the encryption method/keys are foolproof which is always a bad bet.
And, this here makes me wonder how effective that is.
That’s a huge issue. Not just for photos but also files for sensitive data, secrets, etc. this, if true, is a massive issue overall since it even happening at all shouldn’t be possible.
Indeed. If true, it means Apple’s technology doesn’t work the way they claim. Which is a really big issue.